Streamline the process of training classroom staff with this comprehensive manual tailored for special education teachers and parents of autistic students. Designed for both novice and seasoned classroom paraprofessionals, this resource offers an in-depth training package covering topics ranging from the diagnostic criteria of autism to fostering communication development and managing student aggression. The manual is presented in an accessible format with photo examples for clarity. Each section includes a follow-up review to reinforce crucial points, ensuring mastery of the topics. The package also features a final assessment with both factual and applied questions, promoting a thorough understanding of the training manual. An added bonus is the availability of an editable version for further customization within the download! If you like this product, be sure to check out my Classroom Setup Checklist for more tips on effective autism strategies! Do your paraprofessionals speak Spanish? Check out our completely translated Spanish version of this product: Paraprofessional Training Manual EN ESPANOL For more resources, tips, and materials to help you help children with autism please visit The Autism Helper
Supporting kids with special needs works best when both regular education and special education staff work together. That's why it is helpful for all teachers to understand how they can modify and accommodate for students in their classrooms. For newer teachers, learning that you need to modify work
A classroom zoning plan is a detailed staff schedule. I've got 5 reasons why you want to make sure you have one, in writing, to support your classroom and manage staff.
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Social scripts, also known as stories, are one of the most effective and simple ways to provide support to kids with autism. A social script is a short narrative written in first person that discusses one problem situation. So, they come in especially handy for really any situation that comes up. So
How many special education evaluations do you have during one school year? I average about 20-30. And I must say, it is HARD to manage at times. This year, I started using a checklist to help keep my special education evaluations organized. You can download this printable for FREE by clicking here! After downloading the […]
Your blueprint for building structure, consistency, and accountability year-round! This must-have guide provides special education teachers with a solid, workable action plan to manage the classroom and ensure student success. Learn instructional strategies to: Support all students with special needs, including those with more severe disabilities Organize your classroom, materials, and staff and student schedules Plan and assess standards-based lessons, annual IEP's, behavioral interventions, and more Foster parent communication and staff collaboration Packed with real-world examples, free tools to use and share, a list of resources and a helpful glossary, this dynamic resource will inspire you, develop your teacher toolbox, and ensure your students are on the path to achievement!
An evidence-based program teaches mindfulness to educators. Research suggests it can reduce their stress and improve their teaching.
Visual supports are LIFE in special education programs! They are helpful for both the students and the staff in the classroom. Here are some tips on ways to use visual supports to improve behavior and classroom management. Let’s begin by making sure we are all on the same page with what a visual support can ... Read More about Use Visual Supports to Improve Behavior and Classroom Management
If your classroom is anything like mine, we live and breathe by a schedule. That is not to say that we always stay exactly on schedule, but we always have one. Correction: We always have more tha…
Para classroom jobs and expectations to manage and work with your classroom support staff, while building positive rapport. Learn More at Mrs. D's Corner.
I have used a visual schedule in my kindergarten classroom for years, because of the many benefits. #kindergarten primary #visuals #earlylearning
A couple of years ago I talked about 5 reasons to use a zoning plan to manage your staff. In the past I've talked about the importance of zoning plans in your classroom and you can read
I talked about the activity matrix I use in my classroom a while ago. An activity matrix really is a fabulous tool for working in a collaborative classroom where you may or may not have time to touch base with paraprofessionals and service providers regularly (I know I have like zero time to do any ... Read More about Making the Most of Your Activity Matrix
Strategies, interventions, accommodations, and modifications are important academic student supports. Read this guide for teachers and parents.
I've been a little MIA this week in the bloggy world. SCM is my excuse. SCM stands for Safe Crisis Management, so if you gotta problem with it...you're goin' down!! :) Just kidding of course! I have been trained this week though in restraint and de-escalation strategies. Two things have come out of this training; one I'm certified in SCM, two my leg muscles are killin'! Whew! I haven't work them out enough this summer obviously! So, even though I have spent several hours four days this week in training, I have had time for Pinterest! I always got time for that! ;) 1. I think this Parts of a Friend poster is just adorable! 2. This is a great visual to help me remember what the functions of behavior could be in an acting out student. It also helps me explain function of behavior to other people that don't exactly speak special ed. lingo 3. On Monday, I get to get into my new classroom! I am so excited! I am about to burn up my classroom decor Pinterest board! This is one of my favorites for the door decoration. 4. This Sensory Tree would be such a cool idea for the classroom! 5. I am so excited about my new school and what all this experience has yet to bring. I am thankful that God has used me in different places and different schools for His purpose and now I will be going somewhere brand new and will be able to use what I've learned over the years to grow more there. I feel so blessed that God has continued to put me on the right path!
It's Wednesday afternoon and your team has all gone home for the night. You have a pile of papers on your desk to be filed. There is another pile of student work to be posted on the bulletin board. Homework still needs to be graded. You opened 3 parent emails during lunch and need to adjust some things for tomorrow's homework. There are two tests tomorrow and you need to make some more copies of graph paper. One of your TAs had a few questions about a test that you didn't have time to answer. Oh, and there have been some changes to the related service schedule. And it's picture day tomorrow. Sound familiar? Um, this was my Wednesday! It wouldn't be so bad but it seems like every day is just as crazy. Every. Single. Day. I love-love-LOVE my 5th grade team of other teachers and teaching assistants but sometimes relaying messages to everybody and delegating responsibilities becomes a giant undertaking! I mean, including me, there are 8 of us! Throughout the day, thoughts and questions come up that cannot be addressed right away. My four TAs and I travel with our inclusion class between four classrooms. Questions and ideas tend to get forgotten. To remedy this problem, we created a space to put all of our ideas and questions. We use the inside of one of the closet doors in my classroom. This allows us to keep the information somewhat confidential. This system is especially helpful for me when I am at work after my teaching assistants have left for the day and I have things to discuss the next morning. It's great for my entire team so that everybody is heard! I also have a work basket. I can place worksheets I need copies of, assignments that need checked over, or lamination that needs to be cut. Any time one of my assistants has a few minutes where they are not directly working with a student, they check to see if there is anything else they can do to help our class. Another way that I communicate with my teaching assistants is through Testing Folders. These folders are organized by similar testing accommodations. Each teaching assistant and I are assigned a group of students along with a testing location that does not change. The day before a test, I load up the folders with the test, graph or scrap paper, and other tools my students might need. This tool has saved us a lot of time and confusion when it is time to leave the room for testing accommodations. You can read more about how I set up my testing folders in this blog post about testing accommodations. Of course, in order to have a successful team, you have to have sit-down conversations as well. We still meet weekly to discuss important things like students, lessons, and our classroom. You can read more about having successful and productive team meetings in this blog post. What are some other ways you communicate with your teaching team when you don't have time to actually sit and talk to them? I would love to hear what works for you and your team! Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to follow this blog for more special education tips and tricks!
Successful inclusion is our last of the 10 Steps to Well-Run Classrooms series. Here are 7 steps to help your students be successful outside your room.
I'm kicking off a new mini-series with ideas for ways to create incidental opportunities for learning for students in different activities across the classroom .
De-escalation is the process of calming down a situation before it escalates further. It is helping to slowly bring the temperature down before it reaches a boiling point. This is critically important skill for all educators and parents because children and young adults feel overwhelmed and angry so
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I want to focus on some visual strategies / hacks for adults to help keep students engaged in ABA instruction during discrete trials and throughout the day
Task analysis is a staple in most special education classrooms, but there are some important things to know to be effective with them in instruction.
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I'm sharing tips and tricks for solving problems and disagreements in the special education classroom. Keep reading for helpful suggestions.
*** UPDATED ON AUGUST 22, 2019 *** Now includes an editable version of SOME pages, so you can customize to fit your classroom, program, school district... - Para Survey - Autism (adjust for new statistics as needed) - Expectations (use some of mine + customize with your own) - Crisis Procedures (customize with your district's own plan) - Professionalism - AAC (customize for your student's AAC systems) - Data Collection - Behavior Plans - ABC Data (customize with examples that work for your class) This is a huge training manual to be used with paraprofessionals or instructional staff in your special education classroom. As special education teachers, we all know how important it is to have skilled instructional staff in our rooms. Training the instructional staff in our classroom is ESSENTIAL and can make all the difference in the year and for our students. Take the guess work out of training and start the year off right! The manual includes: - a teacher letter (to read before training) - several different versions of individual staff binder covers (color and b/w) - staff surveys - color staff visuals - 61 TRAINING PAGES (36 topics!) - printer friendly - recommendations for training The manual does focus on evidence based strategies (and has a section on Autism). Please check out the preview to see all topics currently included in the manual... more to come! *** I will continue to add additional training pages to this packet as they are created. You can always re-download for FREE *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLICK THE STAR TO FOLLOW ME FOR NEWS ON FREEBIES AND SALES! INSTAGRAM PINTEREST FACEBOOK
This month we’re focusing on visual supports and strategies to support positive behavior. We’ve talked about transition supports and environmental arrangements. Another way to help ther…
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We had another class Monday night with our new dual/ELL staff members, and this time we focused on differentiation and what that may look like across the subject areas. As we have done in the past, we had the teachers participate in a gallery walk and thus rotate around with their groups to add to a series of posters focused on this topic of differentiation. Yet again, our wonderful staff did not disappoint and came up with a wide assortment of ideas as to how instruction can be differentiated for our students! I typed up their ideas on a nice one page spread for them, and thought you all may find it useful as well! Click on it to grab a copy for yourself or a friend. Graphics/Fonts: Scrappin' Doodles, Rowdy Fonts, My Cute Graphics Also, (as if you haven't already heard ;)), I wanted to let you all in on the big secret. TpT will be hosting a "3 Million Teachers Strong" sale February 27-28th. In using promo code TPT3, you can get up to 28% off at my store along with so many more! How exciting is it to see this community of teachers growing and working together :)!
It’s a typical Monday. One of your students has a dead hearing aid battery. Another is experiencing some static through her FM syste...
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Excellent infographic highlighting the key characteristics of ADHD for educators. I think it is great for everyone to gain a clearer understanding of both the visible and invisible challenges faced by children and adults with ADHD. I think I might print this for both of my children’s teachers and highlight the characteristics that apply to […]
Visuals are key for students in special education, but they are also important for staff. Look around the world and you will see there are visual cues all over. Adults need visuals and cues, too! Here are 3 ways I use visuals for staff in my special education classroom. Special education teachers are BUSY!! That’s ... Read More about Cue Staff With Visuals….Adults need Visuals, too!
